Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-23

THE ANARCHISTS DOOM.
The Death Sentence Unanimously Affirm
ell by the Supreme Conrt Of Illinois.
Chicago. Sept. 15.-Tlc Gr9t official in
formation that reached Chicago OF the de
cisiun in the anarchist cases was tele'
craphed from the court clerk ut Ottawa TO
the states attorneys Office in Chicago
MIR. Purcell of the states attorneys Office
ran at once to the Jail with the dispatch.
Following on his heels was messenger
carrying telegram for August Spies, that
had been sent from Ottawa by an agent
of the anarchists. The turnkey who took
the dispatch to cell No. 25 and showed ii
through the bars fingered moment to
watch the effect II would have on Spies.
The anarchist took the message, glanced
firmly at the turnkey, and tAcn Withdrew
to the darker end of the cell. In few
minutes he called gently to the old man
who sits AS a death watch outside his
barred door, and asked him to hand toe
telegraph sheet to Parsons. From him it
went to all the others, and last reached
Neebe who is only under sentence of i'm
prsuumeut. Each of the condemned men
made OstcntRtiOus efforts At GOODNESS and
bravado. They took seats at their cell
doors and read newspapers and books and
smoked cigars. Ling, the bomb maker,
whistled. Their wives and friends had
been with them for an hour during the
morning, but about 30 minutes before the
news came, they were all excluded aud
the prisoners were locked up, each by
himself.
The opinion of the Supreme Court Of
Illinois affirming the judgment of the
court below in the case Of the seven Chi
Cago anarchists convicted of murder was
written by Justice Magruder Of the Chi
capO district 1t cites the case and its
,rirr tGf f la.a1 OF
workinQmen at Chicago and other indus
trial centres about May !, 1856, over the
eight-hOur agitation. III the midst of the
excitement at Chicago a meeting was held
May 4, 1856, at the Haymarket and it was
addressed by defendants Spies Parsons
and Fielden. While the latter was making
his closing speech at some time between
10 and | O'Clock in the evening several
companies of policemen, numbering $50
men, marched into the crowd from their
station on Despaines street aud ordered
the meeting stopped. As soon as the or
der was given, some one threw q bomb
The plaintiffs in error are charged with
being accessories before the tact. There
are Is counts in the Indictment and these
charge the eight defendants with being
present ana abettlng, etc, ana some OF
them say that the defendants advised and
encouraged these laWless acts. The court
then quotes chapter IS, division 3, sections
. and 3, revised statutes of the state of
Illinois, and says II the defendants ad-
vised and encouraged, aided or aDetted
in the killing of the policemen, they
are as guilty as if they had taken
these mems lives in their own hands.
If any of them stood by and saw
or aided IN the throwing of the fatal bomb
each Of the &iders or aOettOrs are as guilty
as HE who did the fatal deed. 1t is
charged that the defendants were united
and had cOnspired to do this awful work
and that their common design was tul
| filled in their terrible plot. While there
was not perhaps a combination OF the
seven culprits, there was Il desire on their
several parts and purposes to accomplish
| the same end.
The questions presented are Did the
defendants have a common purpose or de
! sign to murder the police Did they com
| bine for that purpose, and was the result
of such combination death to men who
were tee guardians of the law These
questions are answered by the affirmative.
Ia closing Judge Magruder said This
association lof anarchists .subverts all
! law. If the men who come to this
very free country and try to destroy it at
sight would read our constitution ard
laws, they would discover that they are
so light that none will feel it. These
defendants were the chief movers, and
the centre Of any and al cOmmunistic
meetings in Chicago, and they were al
WAYS ptODUuDCSu leaders Oh lNe reu nag
Thsy bad wilfully and malciously VIC
lated the laws of the State in various
ways, and 1t was just that they should
suffer it's extreme penalty. The formal
order in the case was as follows
In the case of August Spies and others
against the people of Illinois the court
orders that the sentence of the superior
Court of Cook county of the defendants in
the Observation-Disclosures Spies, Michael
SchWab. Samuel Flelden, A. i. Parsons,
Adolph Fischer, GEORGE Eugel and Louis
Ling-be carried into effect by the sheriff
of Cook county on the llth day of Noyem
Der next on Friday, between the hours OF
10 O'Clock forenoon and in the afternoon
on that day.
The judgment of the court wa, unani
nous.
Capt Black, counsel for the con
demned, said: THE only remaining
course for us to pursue is to take the case
TO the United States Supreme Court.
Joseph r.. Buchanan says that should
the State Supreme Court refuse to grant
an appeal to the United States Supreme
Court, or not pass on the matter IN time
10 have their decision act as n supersedeas
before the date set Tor the execution of the
sentence, application will be made to {
justice of the United States Supreme
Court for Il Supersedeas If these pro
cesses fail, an appeal to executive elem
ency will be made.
The Thistle in "a High wind.